Backup Oracle database with Bacula software. Oracle backup tools.

Backup Oracle database with high performance. The industry leading Oracle backup software.

The Bacula Enterprise Oracle database backup and recovery tools are designed to enable easy and simple backup and recovery of data and configurations stored in Oracle database servers of 10 and 11g. The Oracle backup tools provide high-end capabilities such as being able to easily restore your database to any point in time, or to filter out objects during Oracle database backup and recovery operations. Backup Oracle database and enjoy enterprise performance and granularity.

Key benefits in Oracle database backup tools

When using RMAN mode, the tool provides incremental and differential backup of the Oracle database at the block level.

3) Bacula’s technology is one that Oracle admins know and understand, i.e. rman and its configuration. Bacula Enterprise provides a lot of additional flexibility by combining rman procedures with Bacula as a storage back-end.

The Bacula Enterprise Oracle database backup tool allows you to choose from a wide variety of different backup options. Popular functionalities such as being able to restore your database to any point in time, or being able to filter objects during Oracle database backup or restore will probably guide which techniques and options you decide use. Many users combine Dump and RMAN PITR techniques for the same cluster.

RMAN also allows you to use advanced Oracle backup techniques where you can send the data over the Bacula Enterprise SBT interface to tape for example, and at the same time, on disk for fast restore and disaster recovery.

Choosing Between Dump and RMAN

Feature

Dump

RMAN

RMAN SBT

Can directly restore a single object (table, schema, etc.)

Yes

No

No

Can directly restore a singlefile (index, db, tbs, etc.)

No

Yes

Yes

Backup Speed

Low

High

High

Restore Speed

Low

High

High*

Backup size

Small

Big

Big

Size on local disk during backup

Nil

Entire backup

Nil

Size on local disk during restore

Nil

Entire restore

Objects needed

Can restore to any point in time

No

Yes

Yes

Incremental/Differential support

No

Yes

Yes

Can restore in parallel

Yes

Yes

Yes

Online backup

Yes

Yes

Yes

Consistent

Yes

Yes

Yes

* When using RMAN SBT interface, the restore speed depends on various elements such as the type of media (tape or disk), the network speed, the availability of the Storage Daemon device, etc… In Bacula Enterprise Edition, the Storage Daemon device is able to use the same disk volume for multiple concurrent restores, so it is possible to use concurrent jobs to restore and backup the data.

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